She is not creating the system, but is in fact reinforcing it. It is by definition undemocratic.
I am glad she's shedding the capital, but be real, she's never going to shed enough to come back to the realm of ordinary humans. She married an oligarch, and by being an oligarch that temporarily embarrassed billionaires such as yourself stan for, she is a shining beacon of justification for the system as it is.
I hope that once I achieve oligarch status myself, that you and I can carry on this deep conversation!
You do understand that you started a shitthread by accusing OP of being a paid fascist, right? Then leaned into it. But most of your comment history is flip quips, so par I guess.
Don’t be a bonehead and drag down the discourse, Scotty there is regularly posting and commenting against the authoritarian regime in the US as well.
Lemmy has a lot of reddit-like baggage, but it’s a small community, it's easy to recognize users and verify their history, and even tag them if you use the right reader.
It sets itself to autostart, and then hid the setting deep on a second screen. Opt-out plus malicious design, for one example, and the algorithm and pay structure for another.
I fucking hated spotify from the moment I first interacted with it, primarily due to the way the app worked, and its exploitative position as middleware.
Convenience be damned if it’s a net loss to society.
Sorry, bud, the cultural issues that led us here aren’t so much about your cultural civil war that is mostly just class war in disguise. It’s a both sides problem at the heart of the empire, the one where even the poor folks are okay with 800+ bases on foreign soil, etc.
Self education that leads you and your friends away from heroic individualism, hypercapitalism, parochialism, cults, and other cultural excesses that lead to authoritarianism. It’s what we’re dealing with around the globe but the USA is struggling to understand.
No, I know you are trying to argue in good faith, but I asserted that 2/3 supported, which includes not voting, regardless of defeatism. If the vast majority voted in opposition but still failed, there would be much more impetus for electoral reform, for example.
Failure to actively oppose at the polls is tacit support, even if it’s negligent. Disenfranchised votes are worth struggle.
All-or-nothing thinking is part of what got you folks into this mess. If the problem is not purely political but also cultural, you can both be responsible, and actively trying to fix it.
Just what the fuck do you expect most of us to do?
Build local antifascist institutions and cultural reform by talking to each other about it. Call out jingoistic individualism. Participate in walking away from oligarch capital at every opportunity possible. Lots and lots of protests, and all the hidden active support logistics. It’s a long list, so I will just add in study history in small mutual education groups.
You assert that if the missing 100 million showed up it would make no difference in the outcome, so they were not showing tacit support? I remain unconvinced.
The target audience is not the activists who are already doing what we ask, yes we know, but you are missing that we are seeing a lot of posts disavowing any responsibility, which indicates a deep cultural flaw of individualism and American Exceptionalism, and yeah it bears repeating as the psychological resistance to that message is fierce.
She is not creating the system, but is in fact reinforcing it. It is by definition undemocratic.
I am glad she's shedding the capital, but be real, she's never going to shed enough to come back to the realm of ordinary humans. She married an oligarch, and by being an oligarch that temporarily embarrassed billionaires such as yourself stan for, she is a shining beacon of justification for the system as it is.
I hope that once I achieve oligarch status myself, that you and I can carry on this deep conversation!